He did do that Twitch hot tub special stream so it seems he does run a decent grift. However, Nick being Nick, he only does what he wants to and won't necessarily be a literal court jester to his audience. The closest he has to what you mention is probably the $20 super chat getting read first with all others coming in later.
So roughly $146.3k. Gee I can't imagine how he'd make ends meet in a rural county in MN earning a mere 2x the median Minnesota family income (2019) and 3.6x the Federal poverty level (families of 7 in 2021). Note that the Federal poverty level isn't adjusted for the cost of living difference in, say, LA or NYC vs. in a small town in rural MN. There are people living on far less, and still relatively comfortably.
I wouldn't assume she makes much. On most of those MLM-type schemes you're doing pretty good if the money you make is enough to pay for the products you buy.
He also may have twitch income and whatever ad revenue youtube provides. If anyone donated via an apple device thats an additional 30% gone. ~208k (261 work days in 2021 at 800 a day) minus lets say 45% to include apples fees/google, thats already down to ~114k, then we add self employment taxes which is at 15.3 % and you will see his take home is nowhere near 146k (closer to 97k). Hell with 5 kids with no other income he may actually qualify for government money. Even in my hillbilly town it would be rough to raise 5 kids well on that. Lets add on how much ever his allergy shots costs.
Why is his wife doing MLMs and getting felt up at strip-mall massage joints if they're rich though? Does she just have the worst conceivable taste? If she's really one of the idle rich she should be running a money-sink of an art gallery and getting felt up at "Hollywood Yoga Cleanse" retreats.
He recently claimed that prior to law school, there was a period where he was unemployed and flat broke. He has worked terrible jobs at Circuit City and Wells Fargo. I don't think anyone with money would sign up for that abuse of their own free will. That being said, he purchased the house he currently lives in for $650,000 in 2018 sans mortgage. He did that before he was internet famous, without selling his old home, and having never worked a high paying job in his life. The answer as to how he did that is probably his parents/grandparents.
You have zero sense of what money means. $209K in a rural town is fucking good money. Plus having more kids on top of the ones you already have isn't going to be a straight line increase in costs. Economies of scale don't just apply to paperclips.
All women have terrible taste. As a husband, at a certain point you don't ask why it was necessary to spend $80 at a nail salon.
Thank goodness for that. Far more entertaining and Nick's guests won't be as likely to be scared away.
I knocked off 30% for YouTube. Sure iRetards are also paying 30% to Apple but for however many of those there are I doubt it's more than he's making on ads/Twitch, so I figure the two of those cancel. And I ignored tax since I believe the statistics I used for comparison were also pre-tax. Granted he's paying twice as much SSDI/Medicare tax as W-2 employees do, but the statistics don't differentiate between W-2 and 1099 jobs.
States set the income requirement to qualify for WIC, but it has to be between 100% and 185% of the Federal poverty level, so he's making too much money for that by far.
Yeah but I mean, to continue the metaphor, you might ask why she's going to the $10 ratchet hood-rat nail salon in the ghetto when she could easily afford the $80 place.
Sweet!
Nate the Lawyer apparently talked with him and Kurt said he'd "clear everything up":
